356 



LYC^NID.E, 



terminates at the first median nervulo ; secondaries rather redder than primaries ; basal area 

 darker, its outer limit not clearly defined; submargiual line blackish and interrujjted. 

 Expanse, millim., $ 30 millim. 



The female of this species is very similar to a female Safsuma from the 

 Khasi Hills which Mr. de Niceville has figured and described but not named*. 

 In the Indian species, however, the anal angle is not lobed as in S. niceviUei, 

 it also exhibits the following differences of colour and marking : — Upper 

 surface : the black border of costa and outer margin of primaries is rather 

 naiTower ; the black outer marginal border of secondaries is represented by a 

 dash at anal angle ; the fringes are whitish, distinctly chequered with black at 

 the extremities of the nervules. Under surface ferruginous brown ; central 

 line of primaries edged with white, as also is the lower portion of the 

 limiting line of the dark basal area of secondaries. 



Probably it will ultimately be proved that S. nicevillei and the unnamed 

 insect just referred to are specifically identical, but it seems advisable to leave 

 them separate at present. 



I have two males and one female taken by a native collector at Cliang-yang, 

 Central China, at an elevation of GOOO feet. 



Genus TIIECLA. 



Tlieclu (part.), Fabricius, Illiger's Magazin, vi. p. 288 (180") ; Wcstwood, Gen. Diurn. 

 Lcp. ii. p. 481 (1852) ; dc Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 297 (1890). 



"/■'ore wlnj subtriangular ; costa arched at the base, then nearly straight to the apex; apex 

 rather acute, slightly more rounded in the female than in the male ; outer margin slightly 

 convex or straight; inner margin straight; costal nervurc ending exactly opposite the 

 termination of the discoidal cell ; first subcostal nervule given off from the subcostal nervurc 

 rather beyond the middle of the cell, second subcostal originating at about one third from the 

 apex of the cell in the male, at about one fifth in the female ; subcostal nervuro reaching the 

 apex of the wing; upper discocellular nervulo absent in both sexes, middle discocellular 

 straight, arising in the male from the upper discoidal nervule some distance beyond its origin, 

 nrining in the female exactly at its point of origin, lower discocellular of the same length as 

 the upper, straight : second median nervule originating some little distance before the lower 

 end of (ho cell ; submedian nervurc nearly straight. Male furnished with an elongated 

 narrow nhining blaok patcli of differently formed scales from those on the rest of the wing at 

 I lie anterior end of tlie discoidal cell, which patch is bounded anteriorly by the basal portion 

 of tlie second subcostal nervulo, and extends slightly into the cell and beyond its end. 



'• lliiid wing ovate, all the margins rounded, furnished with a somewhat long narrow tail at the 



• 'iJnmbay Natural History Journal,' vi. p]). :571-:57r>, pi. F. fig. 17(18i)l). 



